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handle is hein.crs/govdarp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: July 6, 2020 Federal Support for Providing Housing to Individuals Experiencing Domestic Violence Domestic violence (DV) affects millions of people in the United States each year. In 2015, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that that an estimated 12 million adult women and men experienced contact sexual violence, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner in the yearpreceding the survey. Reports fromsonr victim organizations and law enforcement agencies indicated an uptickin DV during the COVID-19 pandemic. Individuals who experienceDVare especially vulnerable to housing instability and financial challenges. Housing instability can include having difficultypaying rent or a mortgage, being denied housing because of past credit or rental his tory problems, facing threats of eviction, living in over-crowded conditions, or experiencing homelessness. A one-daycensus count in September2019of about 1,700 DV programs (out of nearly 1,900 nationally) indicated that the programs provided 43,000 adult and child victims of DV with short-termemergency shelters, transitional housing (a temporary accommodation between emergency shelter and longer-termhousing), or other housing. On that same day, these programs lacked thecapacityto provide housing to nearly 8,000 adult and child victims. Separately, a 2008 Department of Justice-funded study of 3,400 residents in domestic violence shelter programs identified safety (85% of residents) and affordable housing (83% of residents) as their two primary needs. o, dcrra .......s Three federal departments primarily address the housing needs ofDVvictinis. The Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Justice (DOJ), and Housing and Urban Development (HUD) administer multiple programs that supportvarious types of housing for DV victims. Some programs are formula grant programs for states, territories, and tribes; others are competitive grant programs for organizations thatprovide housing services. The populations served vary for these programs. For example, programs carried out under HHS's Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA) and DOJ's Violence AgainstWomen Act(VAWA) support victims and survivors of DV and dating violence (these terms are defined in VAWA), while HUD programs support homeless individuals. Together, HHS, DOJ, and HUD fund the Domes tic Violence Housing Technical Assistance Cons ortiumthrough the Safe Housing Partnership. The cons ortiumprovides technical as sistance to housing and DV service providers on housing is sues for DV victims and survivors. HHS P rogram HHS administers programs authorized underFVPSA. The law focuses on providing temporary shelter and services for victims, as well as supporting children exposed todomestic and teen dating violence. The majority of FVPSA appropriations are allocated for formula grants, which fund (1) states, territories, and tribes that subgrant most funds to DV organizations that provide shelter and services; (2) state DV coalitions; (3) training and technical assistance; and (4) administrative and research activities. Original FY2020 appropriations for the formula grants were $175 million (P.L. 116-94), and additionalFY2020 funding of $45 million was provided to respond to the COVIID-19 public health emergency (P.L. 116-136). The FVPSA statuteand regulations specify a variety of emergency shelter or short-termhousing that can be funded: rental subsidies and temporary lodging in individualunits such as apartments, safe homes, andhotel or motel vouchers. In addition, funds can beused for locating and securing safe and affordable permanent housing and providing homelessness prevention services. Subgrantees that offer shelter Imust also provide support services, such as counseling and case management. Figure 1 shows the number of individuals who have received shelter under FVPSA-funded DVprograms and the number of requests for shelter that were unmet due to lackofcapacity. The number of residential clients remained fairly stable over FY2014-FY2018, but the number ofunmet requests increased. For more information, see CRS Report R42838. Figure I. Residential Clients and Unmet Requests for Shelter at FVPSA-Funded Shelters, FY2014-FY2018 3 0 0 ,0 0 0 ............................................ 250,000 150),000 100,000 FY2014 FV2015 FY2016 FY2017 FY2O1 Source: Created by CRS using datafrom HHS, Administration for Children and Families Justification of Estimates, FY2 018-FY202 I. )C1 ,-,cram The DOJ Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) and the Office for Victims ofCrime (OVC) administergrant A '2 .< k '\g nmq\ \\q pgpg\\\ \\ \ \ \\\\vmww \gom

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